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Word: faired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cloud of gloom looms over fair Cambridge. The town villains have captured thousands of students and trapped them in small rooms where they must read philosophical theory and science "texts." The future looks bleak for these captives. But there is one hope. Our hero, the biggest comic book collection in the land (okay, Harvard) can be found lying in wait among mere mortals in the Qube, a.k.a. Quincy House library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...frat boys to be disciplined until their organization can be disbanded (I bet the Massachusetts Teacher Association has the same reputation in the governor's office that Delta did at fictional Faber College). Of course, in the movie it is Dean Wormer who says, "I'll decide what's fair and what's not fair...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Knowledge Is Good | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...clear is that the Board of Regents must do more to ensure that the U.C. campuses are representative of the state of California. If Davis appoints regents who are more diverse, then the debate over how to pursue a talented and diverse student body will be more balanced and fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Balance the Board | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...that workers are routinely fired for trying to organize. The American garment industry grosses $2.5 billion per year from the sale of university-licensed products manufactured in plants such as these. Harvard can help to stop this immoral impoverishment by adopting a strong code of conduct that guarantees fair conditions in factories producing Harvard apparel...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, | Title: The New Student Activism | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

Even after agreeing to ensure fair wages for its workers--even in the face of strong national momentum toward a code--Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League are posed this week to adopt the toothless, industry-approved, Apparel Industry Task Force (AIP) code that includes none of these provisions. Phillips-Van Heusen, one of the main proponents of this pitiful code, closed the only unionized plant in Guatemala last December soon after that code was announced--a good indication of the behavior we can expect from factories adhering to the industry code...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, | Title: The New Student Activism | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

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